I. MARIE
II. "D'ARTHENAY, TENEZ FOI!"
III. ABBY ROCK
IV. POSSESSION
V. COURTSHIP
VI. WEDLOCK
VII. LOOKING BACK
VIII. A FLOWER IN THE SNOW
IX. MADAME
X. DE ARTHENAY'S VIGIL
XI. VITA NUOVA




MARIE.


CHAPTER I.

MARIE.

Marie was tired. She had been walking nearly the whole day, and now
the sun was low in the west, and long level rays of yellow light were
spreading over the country, striking the windows of a farmhouse here
and there into sudden flame, or resting more softly on tree-tops and
hanging slopes. They were like fiddle-bows, Marie thought; and at the
thought she held closer something that she carried in her arms, and
murmured over it a little, as a mother coos over her baby. It seemed a
long time since she had run away from the _troupe_: she would forget